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N.PETEPS. P'HOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D CA UNITED STATES PATENT EETCE.

MYRON A. GILMAN, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 234,769, dated November 23, 1880.

Application filed February 16, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MYRON A. GILMAN, of Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water-Proof Whips; and I hereby declare that the following description is full, clear, and exact.

The object of my invention is to properly and conveniently cover a whip with a metallic coating or finish having an outer application of a water-proof composition, for the purpose of rendering the same water-proof and at the same time not practically interfere with the elasticity of the same.

To explain my invention I will refer to the drawings, in which Figure l represents a common whip, and Fig. 2 represents an enlarged sectional view on line a' x of Fig. l, and in said Fig. 2, B shows the whalebone or rattan running down through the center of the whip. C is the plait-ing or outside covering of the whip, and A shows the coating of' metal or water proof covering, (largely inagnieth) which covers the outside covering, C, and as before said renders the whip water-proof.

To further explain my invention I will describe thc manner in which I cover the whip with a coating of metal having an outer application of a water-proof composition, and as the whip, by the method used in my invention, can be covered by any metal which is first reduced to powder or leaf, I will, by describing the method of covering a whip with gold-leaf, practically illustrate the whole.

I take a whip and coat thesame with varnish or some other adhesive substance, and after the same is partially dry I apply the gold or other metal by sprinkling or sifting the same thereon, or if the gold, silver, or other metal is in the form of leaf, I roll the same upon the whip in the saine manner as it could be applied to any other article by the method known as the bronzing process, and after the same has become thoroughly dry I apply an outer application of varnish or some waterproof composition which, while drying, unites the metal, by what is known as capillary attraction,77 into a hard and compact form, thus rendering the desired result.

I am, ofcourse, well aware that bronze and other metals have been used to cover other articles of manufacture, but I wish to particularly call the attention to this fact-namely, that after l cover the whip with a coating ot' metal I apply an outer application of a waterproof composition, without which I should not be able to bring forth the desired result of rendering the whip water-proof, thusl not interfering with the well-known process of bronzing, to which I lay no claim whatever.

The metals which would most commonly come into use for my invention would be gold, silver, tin, copper, and all kinds of bronze, reduced, as before said, to the form of powder or leaf.

What I claim as my invention, and what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved manufacture, a whip coated or covered with a suitable metallic powder or leaf, having an outer application of a waterproof composition, all substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

MYRON A. GILMAN.

Witnesses:

DANIEL W. Sfrnvnus, ROBERT H. KNEIL. 

